Whew! “Back in the saddle,” folks, with updates and news galore! If you want a good feel for what’s happening in the world, take a road trip and experience the pulse of the nation.
Rvs and campers galore dominate the roadways, along with FedEx trailers hauling our goods cross country. You can visibly see the results of online shopping! Truckers are the heroes of the road – and their companies are all hiring based on the “back of the rig” advertisements. Out-of-state visitors are pretty rampant. One cute Pennsylvanian couple was photographing the wide open spaces of Northern Colorado as they drove. Most of us would say there is “nothing” as far as the eye can see. A vast amount of nothing can be something. I used to feel like I could finally breathe when I returned from a trip back East, just because of the expanses around us. That is one of the benefits of having new eyes again.
It was my first “get out of Dodge” trip since February. The gorgeous lush fields of the Midwest are promising crops well-over “knee high by the Fourth of July.” Farmers are continuing to feed us as they traverse the two-lane roads between towns. Everyone still waves to you. And humidity continues to be the best friend of aging skin. I returned five years younger.
Oh – our readership also spent waking hours coming up with contronyms, assuring me I was not the only word nerd. (Panita and Paroline added “pitch,” “buckle” and “handicap.”) I never could get back on my site after that riveting post. (A blessing in disguise?)
The calmer pace of life back home always tempers my pulse. And so I return, back to the magic of home improvement projects.